What a ride this Kickstarter mullarkey has been, I can't tell you how far this small success has gone towards rejuvenating our belief in The Stagg Do/ Pissheads story world - but actually it's restored my LOVE of filmmaking. When we shot this film in 2011, I never thought I'd still be dealing with its release in 2015. Every step of the way has been a battle: against circumstance, people who think they know best; but don't, lack of money and total indifference from the local press. I could go on - but I don't need to - it's all documented (not in the goriest of detail, but enough) in the pages of this blog. I'm a skeptic and an atheist but at times I've really felt this film is cursed - I hope I'm not tempting fate when I say that doing this Kickstarter has lifted the clouds of doom from my napper.
So thank you all, firstly for your support and your contributions - both financial and in terms of sharing, liking, commenting and of course just cheering us on from the sidelines - we appreciate it all. Secondly and probably more importantly for rekindling my love of filmmaking and AUTHENTIC GEORDIE CINEMA. Hopefully we will see you soon at a screening in your neck of the woods or at the Official DVD Launch in November. Thanks Zahra and James. x (and Luca)
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This was great fun to film. Standing in the rain in Pottery Bank trying to have a BBQ. We even got approached by two community wardens to make sure we weren't hooligans!
Anyway heed their message and contribute if you can PLEASE! xxx
Well we're at the half way point in our campaign. We've entered the lull phase of our Kickstarer. Thing is we don't have time for no lulls. We NEED to hit our stretch, I've got screenings to plan in places like London, Northern Ireland and the North West - we'd LOVE to bring this to our fans there, but we can't do it without your help. So as Staggy says - "Hoy some lowey owa. NOOO!" #WhosDennis #TheStaggDo
It's exactly a week since our Kickstarter campaign went live and to say the success has left us reeling would be an understatement. In fact it would be no exaggeration to say it's taken us this long to get our heads around it. All of our planned updates and update videos have had to be sacked off and rewritten with a different emphasis. Today we officially launch of Stretch goal of £7000.
So if we need £7000, why didn't we ask for £7000? Well, we don't NEED £7000 for our original plan of paying for the BBFC certification and hosting a DVD Launch party and screening - that'll cost about £4000 - which was our original goal. The extra money will allow us to do extra things - eg hold a screening in London and hold additional screenings in other parts of the country. We can order BluRays to offer as perks or for sale AND for anything we raise above £7000 we can probably get a DCP organised which would mean we could screen in cinemas not just pubs/ clubs etc. So what say you? ARE YOU IN?
It aint over until the fat lady sings. Or something.
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